Home Secretary Amber Rudd has incurred the wrath of fellow ‘old girls’ at Cheltenham Ladies’ College over her tough stance on immigration.

One former pupil even suggested she is a bad role model who should not be invited back to the school.

The row erupted after Ms Rudd’s speech this month, during which she said foreign workers should not be allowed to take jobs that ‘British people could do’. Her remarks sparked fury on the Facebook site of former pupils of the private school she attended in the late 1970s.

‘I wouldn’t want my child being raised by such xenophobic role models,’ wrote one. And ex-pupil Emma Pruen said the school, which asked Ms Rudd to address this year’s speech day, should ‘think twice about inviting her back’.